Illegal vs Null - What's the difference?
illegal | null |
Contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Peter Wilby)
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, title= Forbidden by established rules.
(philately, of an issue printed for collectors) Totally fictitious, and often issued on behalf of a non-existent territory or country.
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# (chiefly, US, sometimes, offensive) Being an illegal immigrant; residing in a country illegally.
(colloquial, offensive) An illegal immigrant.
An illegal resident spy.
* 2012 , , ‘Colder War’, Literary Review , issue 399:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective illegal
is illegal; not permitted by law.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.illegal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Finland spreads word on schools, passage=Imagine a country where children do nothing but play until they start compulsory schooling at age seven. Then, without exception, they attend comprehensives until the age of 16. Charging school fees is illegal , and so is sorting pupils into ability groups by streaming or setting.}}
Usage notes
The use of "illegal" to describe a person rather than an action is often regarded as offensive.https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/04/03-5Synonyms
* (forbidden by law) criminal, felonious, illicit, unlawful * (totally fictitious) bogusAntonyms
* (forbidden by law) lawful, legalDerived terms
* illegal alien * illegal immigrantNoun
(en noun)- Anna Chapman, whose glamorous appearance won her more publicity in the Western media than all the other illegals combined, was so successfully deceived by a US sting operation that she handed over her SVR laptop to an FBI agent posing as a Russian.
Usage notes
The use of "illegal" to describe a person rather than an action is often regarded as offensive, and the use of "illegal" as a noun is especially charged.References
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.